National Professional Qualification in Leading Teacher Development (NPQLTD)

Become an expert teacher educator and learn how to successfully support your teachers to improve their own teacher practice through carefully sequenced professional development.

Eligibility: This course is designed for those who lead, or aspire to lead on, the professional development of other teachers.

Duration: A 12 month specialist qualification 

Curriculum:

This programme follows the Department for Education’s National Professional Qualification for Leading Teacher Development Framework. On this programme, you will learn how to:

• Make sure professional development in your school is focused on a shared responsibility for improving outcomes for all pupils
• Diagnose what teachers know and can do, starting professional development from that point and adapting the approach based on their developing expertise
• Help teachers improve through evidence-based professional development focused on improving classroom teaching
• Gain an understanding of what teachers have learned by reviewing patterns of performance over a number of assessments
• Develop and lead a team of colleagues who can facilitate a range of professional development approaches
• Contribute to a programme of professional development for mentors, trainees and early career teachers.

How you will learn:

The programme is delivered with a mixture of face-to-face and virtual sessions. The programme starts with a full-day Conference to introduce you to the structure and content of the course, allowing you to meet your Visiting Fellow and the wider NPQ cohort.  

Each of the six courses within the programme is taught through a combination of self-study modules, a mixture of virtual and in-person Clinics, and peer-led Community sessions. You will also be allocated a study partner to complete online learning with and discuss reflections. 

The North-West London Teaching School Hub team will be supporting you throughout your learning journey on the programme, tracking your progress and acting as your point of contact. 

Assessment:

There is no project work required for this NPQ. At the end of the 12 month course, you will be given an eight-day assessment window to sit an ‘open book’ style assessment in which you respond to a short case study. We will offer a webinar and live clinic before the assessment window to support you in preparing for your assessment.

Cost:

From September 2024, a limited number of fully-funded NPQLT spaces will be available for participants working in schools with the highest 50% of pupil premium pupils.

Fully-funded spaces are filled up quickly, therefore we always advice early applications.

If you do not work in an eligible school, or all fully-funded spaces have been filled, the cost of the NPQLTD is £899 + VAT.

If you’re unsure whether you will qualify for this ‘pupil premium’ based on funding, please use the Ambition Institute online eligibility check tool, and/or contact us at npq@northwestlondontsh.org.uk and we will advice.

Facilitators:

Raphael Moss

Elsely Primary School

Maria Panayi

Edmonton County School

Further Info:

Only in exceptional circumstances may a participant request either a deferral or withdrawal from their programme. Participants should be aware that there is a process to follow which is outlined in Ambition’s Institute’s Deferral and Withdrawal Policy

A participant considering withdrawal from an NPQ Programme should be aware that it is Department for Education Policy to only fund an NPQ course for a participant once. This means that a participant who starts a Department for Education funded NPQ course, and then withdraws from that course, will not be funded again for the same programme.